Indonesia's Asian Agri to optimise excess supply from biogas facilities

Indonesia's Asian Agri to optimise excess supply from biogas facilities

Asian Agri, an Indonesian palm oil specialist, is producing excess
electricity from its biogas plants in Sumatra and is appealing to investors
to buy this surplus power.

According to the Jakarta Post, the biogas facilities have been in operation
since last year.

Asian Agri, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Royal Golden Eagle (RGE)
conglomerate group, currently has five biogas plants: two each in Riau and
North Sumatra and one in Jambi, each capable of producing up to 2MW.

Asian Agri's Buatan I Plantation mill manager Parnel Siagian said the
company was interested in selling the excess power supply to any party,
including state electricity company PLN.

"Our negotiations with PLN is still in its initial phase. We hope to hear
good news from them, but in the meantime we are also open to other parties
that are interested [in buying the electricity],"Siagian said as reported in
the Jakarta Post.

The 5 x 2 MW plants are used to power daily operations of the firm's five
palm oil mills in the respective locations, however, only 700 kilowatts are
used from each plant so there is 5 x 1.3 MW excess available for sale to
other parties.

Parnel said if PLN was interested in buying, the state operator could
potentially power 35,000 small households.

The five power plants, running since 2015, are fired by biogas produced from
palm oil mill effluent (POME), the waste water discharged from the
sterilisation process, crude oil clarification process and cracked mixture
separation process. POME produces huge amounts of methane gas from its
anaerobic process.

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com